Season
Second Season
Preview
Site Names
Hisban, Hesban, Hesbon, Heshbon, Esbus, حسبان, חשבון
Creation Date
7-21-1971
Descriptor Level A
Area F
Descriptor Level B
Square No. T-6
Descriptor Level C
Basket No. 6
Descriptor Level D
Locus No. 4
Description
Obj. Reg. No. 639
Stratum: BA05/6
Material: Gold
Allocated to: Department of Antiquities
Notes: 1.88 cm. long
cf. one in case in Amm.[an?] museum. Crescent is hollow, marks of hammering gold foil
Notes Reverse: Delicate + fragile gold foil
"A fragment ca. 3.5 cm. long of the top section of a large lunate earring. The body of the original piece was obviously composed of gold foil shaped around a paste filling. Marks of the hammering of the gold foil are visible. This fragment has the top ends of the crescent abruptly narrowed into wire, the pointed ends of which could be inserted into the pierced earlobe and crossed over each other, and finally affixed by twists."